Palabras extrañas a si mismas: una aproximación desde la hermenéutica intercultural al bilingüismo de Julia Kristeva.

The loss of the mother tongue and the acquisition of French as the language of her writing play a capital role in the theoretical and literary work of Julia Kristeva. This paper aims to analyze Kristeva's ideas on bilingualism and language loss as well as their historical and ideological context by using the latest scholarship on literary multilingualism. Special attention will be paid to Kristeva's concept of language and the individual as strangers to themselves. Additionally, this paper endeavors to establish a channel of communication between Kristeva's ideas and the theories of intercultural hermeneutics, a school which proposes reading foreign literary texts as a means of unearthing the prejudices of our own culture while approaching the world of the text respecting its irreducible otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]